Emerging construction markets in Asia-Pacific will grow by an estimated 125 percent between 2009 and 2020, according to Global Construction 2020.

China will overtake the United States as the largest construction market globally by 2018 and by 2020 the construction market in China will be worth an estimated $2.4 trillion. India will overtake Japan by 2020 to become the third largest global construction market, according to Global Construction 2020.

The world’s top 10 construction markets by size today will change over the next decade as growth in emerging markets such as BRIC countries outpace developed countries.